Biology B1 Key Words - Keeping Healthy

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Keeping Healthy Malnourished The condition where the body does not get a balanced diet.
Keeping Healthy Metabolic Rate The rate at which reactions take place in your body
Keeping Healthy Inherited Passed on from parents to their offspring through genes
Keeping Healthy Mass The quantity of matter in an object; a measure of the difficult of changing the motion of an object (in kilograms, kg)
Keeping Healthy Overweight A person is overweight if their body carries excess fat and their BMI is between 25 and 30
Keeping Healthy Obese Very overweight, with a BMI of over 30
Keeping Healthy Pathogen A microorganism which causes disease
Keeping Healthy Infectious Disease A disease which can be passed on from one person to another
Keeping Healthy Microorgansim Bacteria, Viruses and other organisms that can only be seen using a microscope
Keeping Healthy Bacteria Single-celled microorganism that can reproduce very rapidly. Many Bacteria are useful (For example gut bacteria and decomposing bacteria) but some do cause disease
Keeping Healthy Virus A microorganism which takes over body cells and reproduces rapidly, causing disease.
Keeping Healthy White Blood Cell Blood cells which are involved in the immune system of the body, engulfing bacteria, making antibodies and producing antitoxins.
Keeping Healthy Immune System The body system which recognises and destroys foreign cells or proteins such as invading pathogens
Keeping Healthy Antibiotic A drug that destroys bacteria inside the body without damaging human cells
Keeping Healthy Culture Medium A substance containing the nutrients needed for microorganisms to grow
Keeping Healthy Agar The nutrient jelly on which many microorganisms are cultured
Keeping Healthy Epidemic When more cases of an infectious disease are recorded than would normally be expected
Keeping Healthy Pandemic When more cases of a disease are recorded than normal in a number of different countries
Keeping Healthy MRSA Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. An antibiotic resistant bacterium
Keeping Healthy Natural Selection The process by which evolution takes place. Organisms produce more offspring than the environment can support so only those which are most suited to their environment - the 'fittest' - will survive to breed and pass on their useful characteristics
Keeping Healthy Vaccine The dead or inactive pathogen material used in vaccination
Keeping Healthy Vaccination Introducing small quantities of dead or inactive pathogens into the body to stimulate the white blood cells to produce antibodies that destroy the pathogens. This makes the person immune to future infection.
Keeping Healthy Immunisation Giving a vaccine that allows immunity to develop without exposure to the disease itself
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